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So this Jazz player Rudy Gobert was the first to be diagnosed in the NBA and he was joking around touching everybody's stuff before he knew he had it. There's that video of him touching all the microphones as he was leaving his press conference, and it's reported that "Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings." What a dickhead. I mean, I get that this was before his diagnosis but .... just an all time bad move. Was he already experiencing flu-like symptoms when he was doing that stuff? I wonder.

Unrelated note, I feel like the Knicks have burst onto the scene of being the worst franchise in American sports lately. Which is not to say they haven't been bad for a long time already but with the Spike Lee stuff and other various news bits I've heard about, they are really a complete joke right now. It goes beyond having a bad team on the court, the way they handle PR and other stuff is so bad. Their response to the Spike Lee incident was so poorly worded.

So this Jazz player Rudy Gobert was the first to be diagnosed in the NBA and he was joking around touching everybody's stuff before he knew he had it. There's that video of him touching all the microphones as he was leaving his press conference, and it's reported that "Jazz players privately say that Rudy Gobert had been careless in the locker room touching other players and their belongings." What a dickhead. I mean, I get that this was before his diagnosis but .... just an all time bad move. Was he already experiencing flu-like symptoms when he was doing that stuff? I wonder.

I can say with knowledge due to the fact of being in an NBA locker room regularly in a past life of mine, it is careless but it is the norm. These guys share a lot of things within their locker (cologne, lotion, things of that nature). Maybe there was heightened awareness over recent weeks but I doubt it was radically different. The fact that players went out of their way (off the record, obviously) to say that didn't help Gobert's cause, though. It appears they have a second positive case on their team but that appears the extent as everyone else tested negative.

The issue is the second player was present at a nearby high school in Oklahoma, where the game was set to be played, so who knows the ramifications.

I can say with knowledge due to the fact of being in an NBA locker room regularly in a past life of mine, it is careless but it is the norm. These guys share a lot of things within their locker (cologne, lotion, things of that nature). Maybe there was heightened awareness over recent weeks but I doubt it was radically different. The fact that players went out of their way (off the record, obviously) to say that didn't help Gobert's cause, though. It appears they have a second positive case on their team but that appears the extent as everyone else tested negative.

The issue is the second player was present at a nearby high school in Oklahoma, where the game was set to be played, so who knows the ramifications.

you used to be in NBA locker rooms? do tell. (you might have told it before but I don't recall)

The way he was mocking the virus by touching all of the microphones to germ them up, followed by the report that players said he was being careless, makes me wonder if he did the same thing to them in the locker room. At best, he went about his normal business as you describe. At worst, he kept joking about it in the locker room and did the same stunt that he did to the media's microphones/recorders. Given that Jazz players reportedly are calling him careless, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than just everyday touching of items.

you used to be in NBA locker rooms? do tell. (you might have told it before but I don't recall)

The way he was mocking the virus by touching all of the microphones to germ them up, followed by the report that players said he was being careless, makes me wonder if he did the same thing to them in the locker room. At best, he went about his normal business as you describe. At worst, he kept joking about it in the locker room and did the same stunt that he did to the media's microphones/recorders. Given that Jazz players reportedly are calling him careless, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than just everyday touching of items.

I haven't mentioned it lol. Just a past life working with teams (four) and doing work for them in different natures.

I mean, he really wouldn't have to do much out of the norm of their day to day routine. They shared training tables, training equipment, personal items (if someone needed to use it) so even if he was being careful, the NBA would have had to ramp up the preventative measures and I doubt they did that to the fullest level available (not a knock on them, but it's just a fact of life probably). Normal business was going to have close interaction.

Any NBA player or coach of note from about 2010-2018, that came through Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma...I interacted with them lol. Some a lot more than others, and talked to them directly. Some in a one-on-one setting. I've seen two championship celebrations after they won and have held the trophy twice.